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Entrepreneur Bootcamp: Spark Education Innovation Day

Add to Calendar Icon 2018-10-08 10:00 2018-10-08 16:30 15 Penn GSE Event: Entrepreneur Bootcamp: Spark Education Innovation Day Join Catalyst @ Penn GSE for Spark Education Innovation Day, one in a series of bootcamps designed to take education entrepreneurs from initial idea through to early stage startup.
Catalyst @ Penn GSE 3440 Market Street, Suite 500 Philadelphia, PA 19104
Benjamin Greenwald DD/MM/YYYY
Monday, October 8, 2018 - 10:00am to 4:30pm
Catalyst @ Penn GSE 3440 Market Street, Suite 500 Philadelphia, PA 19104

This intensive, one-day Catalyst bootcamp is the ideal environment for startup magic to happen. Supported by education industry professionals and the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) faculty, entrepreneurs will be immersed in a structured, day-long workshop of guided exercises where you explore and develop your education startup ideas with fellow participants to address a problem in the market you want to solve and then refine your idea into a ‘pitch.’

You’ll leave the bootcamp with an understanding of how to position your product or service with prospective buyers and investors and a roadmap for how to begin transforming your idea into reality.

Topics covered include:

  • Anatomy of the 60-Second Pitch
  • Building a Persona
  • Determining and Validating Market Need
  • Defining the Value Proposition
  • Estimating Market Size
  • Competitive Analysis

Participants end the day by pitching their idea to a panel of peers and receiving instructor feedback.

Bootcamp fee is $195 and includes lunch served on-site mid-day. U Penn students and alumni save $50! For students, use promotion code STUD183, and alumni, use ALUM183.


Event Contact

Benjamin Greenwald
bgreenw@upenn.edu